My beloved healthcare bill isn't perfect, as most of the things I love aren't....sigh.
The White House recently disclosed that young immigrants now allowed to stay in the US will not qualify for health insurance under PPACA (neither Commercial nor Medicaid / CHIP public coverage). This is a great example of bad policy stripping away the good intentions of another - these immigrants, now allowed to stay in the US with dreams of becoming productive citizens, will not qualify to purchase health insurance on exchanges and have access to affordable healthcare.
In my public health program, we learned all too often that personal health is very much linked to the ability to become a productive member of society...Ricardo Campos' story in the article is a great examples of this.
You can read the article here.
